User:Cloud
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John Breslin (http://www.johnbreslin.com/) (AKA Cloud) is a researcher and adjunct lecturer at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (http://www.deri.ie/), National University of Ireland, Galway (http://www.nuigalway.ie/). He is also leader of the Social Software Subcluster (http://sw.deri.ie/soso) there. He is the author of a number of research publications into the areas of social networks and semantically-enabled online communities (see SIOC (http://sioc-project.org/)). In September 2004, he was an organiser of the 1st Workshop on Friend Of A Friend, Social Networks and the (Semantic) Web (FOAF Galway (http://sw.deri.org/~jbreslin/foaf-galway)).
John is also co-founder of Ireland's largest discussion community boards.ie (http://www.boards.ie/). He has built smaller bulletin board sites for other countries such as Japan (boards.jp (http://www.boards.jp/)), the US (boards.us (http://www.boards.us)) and New Zealand (boards.co.nz (http://www.boards.co.nz)). In 2005, he set up blog aggregators for both Ireland (http://planet.journals.ie) and New Zealand (http://planet.journals.co.nz), and a multi-user blogging site at journals.ie.
External links
- John Breslin's Personal Page (http://www.johnbreslin.com/)
- John Breslin's Work Page (http://sw.deri.org/~jbreslin/)
- John Breslin's Blog: Cloudlands (http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/)
- boards.ie (http://www.boards.ie/)
- Semantically-Interlinked Online Community Project (http://sioc-project.org/)
